Modern nationhood A vision for India: Nehru’s idea of modern nationhoodMANI SHANKAR AIYARIt is necessary to revive the four key dimensions of Nehru’s vision for a modern nationhood—democracy, secularism, socialism and non-alignment.
Essay Muslims & policeA.G. NOORANIEnduring “institutional prejudice”—this conclusion of a famous inquiry report in the U.K. holds good for India’s minority situation as well.
Nehru's legacy The Nehru development modelPRABHAT PATNAIKThe Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy, which does not promote the export of products that take land away from foodgrain production, must constitute the crux
From Nehru to his Chief Ministers Letters for a nation: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Chief MinistersNehru wrote to his Chief Ministers on the 1st and 15th of each month and he had written 400 letters from 1947 to 1963.
Imagining the nation How Nehru used science for nation buildingS. IRFAN HABIBFor Jawaharlal Nehru, science was an “enzyme of hope”, a romance, a dream, and a constructive way of imagining the nation.
Nehru's legacy: Development plan The Nehru model of developmentPRABHAT PATNAIKThe Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy must constitute the crux of any anti-imperialist development plan.
Diplomacy The middle path: Nehru’s pragmatic diplomacyK.P. FABIANNehru’s diplomacy gave a newly independent India a stature in world affairs much above its economic and military power and guided it deftly in a world
In first person My view from an ‘anda’ The 14 months spent in jail were like 14 years in hell. Thanks to a huge campaign outside and an order by a division bench of the Bombay High Court,
Book Review Holocaust-era horrorsKarthik Keramalu In these haunted pages, a teenager becomes a much-loved, albeit flawed, hero.
1967: First performance of Vijay Tendulkar’s Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe TEAM FRONTLINEThe staging of Vijay Tendulkar’s Marathi play, Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (Silence! The Court Is In Session), in 1967 is considered a milestone in Ind
Conservation Tiger at homeA.J.T. JOHNSINGHThe Indian subcontinent can support around 3,700 tigers if there is a large track of quality habitat which has an abundance of prey and is free from p
Stepping into a male bastionThulasi KakkatWith their entry, it’s curtains for a 90-year-old, male-only tradition at the Kalamandalam.
Is a reversal of bank nationalisation on the cards? Calls for privatisation have grown louder just as public sector banks clean up their balance sheets.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.
